The Hip Hop Anthropologist

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5281162/fcc-npr-pbs-investigation?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us With CBS in "settlement" talks over the Kamala Harris interview, poised to capitulate to the Trump administration, the NYTimes and other legacy media outlets have been ousted from their coveted perches in the Pentagon (replaced by right wing tabloids such as the NY Post, and radical right ring media outlets like Breitbart and OAN) the coup d'état is practically complete. Now the Trump infested Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is flexing its authority by falsely accusing NPR and PBS of commercial advertising, which violates their charters, and threatens federal funding streams. The die may be cast. Although tepid in their push back against the steady torrent of falsehoods emanating from the Trump administration, PBS and NPR are still too "liberal" to pave the path, grease the slide, into the dystopian blackout conservatives want to keep Americans in the d...

 Over the past year, my Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts respectively have been either restricted or suspended for short periods of time allegedly because I abridged Meta (parent company of both social media platforms) terms of service (TOS). Since I responded with this blog, the accounts restrict everything I attempt to post. Doubtless a deliberate campaign fostered by some anonymous, pimply-faced, Incel masquarading as a nerd, trying to curry favor with Suckersberg who would not know the employee's name if it smacked him in his smug pusser. In all the instances, I merely responded to either a provocative or implicitly racist post by catfishing settler-colonists masquerading as an original man or woman with a “locked” profile: a profile without a photograph in a space (i.e., group or page) “Kevin Samuels Official Discussion Group” to name one of many targeted to or focused on the issues of Black folks. Once ferreted out, the confederates of these settler-colonists, would ...